ACWC Rules 2013

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ACWC Rules 2013

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ACWC Signups Start: 10th July

ACWC Signups Finish: 26th July

ACWC Qualifiers Start: 27th July

ACWC Starting Date: 5th August

ACWC Referees (places still open):
- BigBen
- Luc@s
- Oracle
- SercartY
- Million
- EndGame

ACWC Casters:
- Waffles
- Larry
- Undead
- Marti

ACWC Streamers (places still open):
- X-Ray_Dog
- 0xygen*
- Jonux

Notice to all participants:

⚑ The organization of a tournament such as the ACWC requires a set of rules and regulations, and many administrators and referees to help enforce said rules. By playing or involving yourself in this tournament, you agree to respect these rules and those who organize and assist with the running of the ACWC.
⚑ Since we can't predict every eventuality to any given scenario, we reserve the right to modify these rules at any stage, if necessary.
⚑ Violation of the following rules will result in sanctions, and possibly your disqualification from the tournament.

Introduction to the tournament:

⚑ The ACWC 2013 aims to be a fun and competitive AC (1.1.0.4) tournament between different countries. This year's ACWC will be led by Newbie, Harrek, and Vanquish, with help from Lucas, who has been awesome enough to make anticheat binaries and provide support to the team where he can.
⚑ You may not participate in this tournament if you have cheated or been blacklisted in the last six months, otherwise everyone is free to get involved - although we may deny certain teams or players from participating should they be in violation of the ACWC rules.

Team registration:

⚑ There will be a thread posted shortly where you may post to sign up your team. Fill out the sign-up form and admins will get back to you shortly.
⚑ Since this tournament is a world cup, a team should represent a country or at least a specific area/region in the world. Note that up to two teams may represent the same country - a qualifier match to decide which of the two teams will advance to the first round will be played on the week starting from the 27th.
⚑ The players of each team should have similar timezones and good organizational skills - if we see teams that are attempting to "stretch the boundaries" of countries, or teams that are attempting to make clan-like teams, we may deny these entries from participating.
⚑ If you want to play for a country other than the one where you are currently residing, you must have a compelling connection (such as citizenship) to the country in question, or else your entry will be denied.

Matches:

⚑ The tournament will be single elimination and will be played in 3vs3 CTF only.
⚑ A special anticheat client (big thanks to Lucas) will be made for the tournament and released at a later date. It will be compulsory to play with this at all times (we will know who is and who isn't using it).
⚑ Once all the teams have signed up and signups are closed, a bracket will be made and a weekly round thread will be provided on this forum. Once you have arranged the date and time for the match to be played, please post in the appropriate thread so that we can attempt to organize streamers/casters to cover the match. The winning team has the responsibility to post screenshots and demos on the thread.
⚑ If teams agree a time and one doesn't show up within 30 minutes, the other team wins (provided that they have evidence). If a time was unable to be settled, the team that tried hardest to arrange the match will be awarded the default win.
⚑ One map will be picked per round. The teams will be shuffled three times, and the team that has the most players on a side will play from this side first. Afterwards, the sides will be swapped, and the flags totalled from both rounds will be added together. Scoring is based on flags only - if the round is tied, two rounds of a tiebreaker map will be played in the same way. In the event of a tie yet again, a third map will be played on both sides.
⚑ Every player, sub and referee have to be using the ACWC client. Every match has to be played on an official ACWC server. Otherwise, the match results will simply be ignored.
⚑ We have not decided how maps will be released yet - the poll is open here so feel free to vote. At the end of the week, we will run with the option that has the highest number of votes.


Please ask any questions you may have!